Information and helpful hints on how to grow
food in your backyard. The region is South Eastern Australia.
The garden is in the city of Ballarat. This site is normally
updated monthly. Last updated on
1st March 2015.

Welcome to the Urban Food Garden
website. Many people dream about living on a few hectares
in the country and growing their own food. Yet in reality the
majority of us live in an urban environment, over ninety percent
of Australians do so and most are unlikely to ever to move to the
country. This site has been set up to help and encourage people
to grow at least some of their own food where they live and are
always likely to live, in the cities, suburbs and towns that dot
our wonderful planet. It is not meant as a complete manual
covering everything to do with food production, nor do I claim
to be an expert on gardening matters. What I hope this site does
is :

Provide some basic notes on how to grow fruit &
vegetables.

Give hints and advice in areas where I have
developed techniques that I believe are not covered in
other gardening books or websites.

Offer planting and garden design information that is
specific to the Ballarat and surrounding district
climate.

Display my garden through images online to give the
viewers ideas as to what they can do in their own
gardens.

Be a contact point for others who share my interest
in producing food in their own backyards.

So please enjoy this site! And if you have
any gardening hints, stories of successes or failures, or simply
like what you see on this website then please feel free to drop
me a line. I would love to hear from you!